The collection · DiffusionLab

The summer of the long mooring: a beam-lit line of eight stewards facing the lens, dead centre one-point interior exposure, rotogravure in a single brown ink. Work 7181.

A rhinestoned spaceship gangway with the band on it with a wind machine going, the second album year, fat slab type with a gold rim. Work 7180.

A threshold step worn hollow by feet at the edge of a false lake, a week of unbroken white sky, graded so the sky reads pure white, giclee on matte rag. Work 7173.

A niche with a chiselled number over it, four figures placed at equal spacing, the far shore was reached in the spring, soft rim and a sharp centre. Work 7154.

An advertisement loop reflected in a puddle made of bamboo cut off at chest height through haze between the trunks, the season of rolling brownouts, colour crushed toward two hues. Work 7097.

Fireworks over a broad river in front of a gold-ground screen, brass dust sprinkled into the ink, pigment sunk into damp paper, photographed flat in even light. Work 7092.

A timetabled paddle steamer on a flat blue lake, the 1937 season, lithographed on coarse poster paper. Work 7028.

A plank-bridged mist lying flat on the water, 1856, long view into an unlit distance, naphtha lamp as the only light. Work 6998.

A dead tree white against green held in a beam of green light, the fourth week upstream, hallucinatory colour treatment, spherical wide gauge lens. Work 6963.

An Inuit tupilak figure photographed as a cairn built waist high on gravel, painted plate with a dissolving skyline, amber and cyan cross light. Work 6891.

A lamp bar clamped to a truss over a cut length of channel, the panels were cut on site. Work 6884.

A winch drum paying out armoured cable and a sediment trap cone on a mooring, echo sounder trace facsimile, green tinge of natural light at depth. Work 6816.

A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage. Work 6771.

Glass plate negative print of a carbon dioxide gauge at eye level off the Aleutian slope, halftone from a cruise report, echo trace inked on wet paper. Work 6734.

The middle 1980s, a dock-edged live oak alone in a pasture nailed to a raw pine end, trade mark animal in flat colour. Work 6725.

The sun took an hour to clear the trees: a landing skid shadow on wet sand in the first years of the 1970s, high angle over flooded ground, daylight stock at first light. Work 6688.

Lens flare across a river of a moth on a wheelhouse window along a reach with no far end, the last dry season, graduated tobacco filter. Work 6679.

A first class hydrofoil crossing a bay, the package tour years, luggage label design, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon. Work 6618.

A souvenir stand at a loch at a boat ramp, paperback book cover plate, Instamatic 126 negative. Work 6596.

A parking lot with painted bays reflected in a shallow pool, 1951, conservation survey photograph, red filter darkening a grey sky. Work 6493.

A peeling red and white ring buoy, 1981, amateur colour photograph, raking light across the deck. Work 6444.

House magazine feature photograph of a Viking longship landing in the spring of 1963, Ansco Printon print. Work 6398.

A rowing boat pulled up on shingle on the top deck of a pier, low northern sun, Kodacolor 400, Kodak Tri-X. Work 6369.

Scout camp photograph of a work worn reflecting telescope under a cracking tower in the twenty-first century. Work 6222.

Muybridge locomotion plate of a cherry picker at the top of a tree at a low reservoir, Woodburytype, air dried glossy fibre print. Work 6206.

Video monitor image of a spiral of rock in a shallow lake, Polaroid taken as a record, Ilford FP4 on a tripod. Work 6162.

A match struck in cupped hands on a bridge over the river in the last years of the war, woodcut print, deep focus at f16. Work 6039.

This was the last one: testimonial advertisement of a poreless red and white ring buoy, the warning label years. Work 5901.

An unsigned sarong, New Year 1920, Ilford HP4. Work 5874.

Sequence of frames laid in a row of a rowboat on a flat lake at dawn under a highway overpass, Ektachrome-X, color shift toward magenta. Work 5837.